I've decided to try a new thing in this blog. Over the next week or two I will be posting a Series of posts titled "What Has Happened..?". The posts in the series will go over topics such as my thoughts on how teens are behaving these days and what the music industry, schools, parents, and other teens have to do with it along with the fast pace of the media. It will be kind of a cause and effect series based around teens.
There are different kinds of teenagers that I have noticed and that I will discuss in one of my posts. These three vast groups can be broken down into subcategory stacked upon subcategory, which I might clarify and go over in that post.
I myself am a teenager (currently 14, but will be 15 in February), so I constantly see this happening around me. I am thrown into the middle of most of it either trying to solve peers problems or just give them a "sounding board" to let all their bunched up feelings out.
Just like any other post that I make in this blog, I am giving my honest, not-sugar-coated opinion about things that I notice in the world that I happen to think more deeply about. Their not to make people take offense to it, it's just another opinion added into a world full of them. This series of posts are what I see going on from more than one person, but their are people that I have met that are very special human beings and aren't in any of the categories that I see.
I hope the small amount of readers, if any, that I have enjoy the posts to come.
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Monday, January 4, 2010
What Makes People All A Flutter About Twitter?
Going through the processes of my day to day life, I find that I hear about one website increasingly and more often then any other website that is probably known to exist. Twitter. As I started to hear and see twitter on the sides of blog posts and videos, being discussed on talk shows, and reading many random articles online that say "Follow me on Twitter!" I decided to investigate what made people "all a twitter".
To be able to investigate such a thing, I had to sign up to the website myself. After browsing around for a while I found... well I didn't find all that much actually. Twitter, the website that is causing people such an uproar of talk, is nothing more than a constant status updater. This website has the same exact thing that every other social networking site has. All that is asked to do is answer the question on the front page when you first log in, "What's Happening?". It has to be the most simple question in the world to answer.
I continued to look around and found replies linked back to the person that had first posted a status update using the @ symbol. Many of the users that are on twitter also use the pound (#) symbol infront of many of the words that they type out before they post. Some of these words with the random pound symbol was used enough to achieve a spot in the Trending Topics sidebar.
Who uses this?
I have noticed that just about every human alive in the United States uses this. Of course that is an exaggeration, but it is heard about everywhere. Celebrities have it, shows have it, Youtube icons have it, ordinary people have it, and pretty much everyone else that craves attention or wants something of theirs to be noticed.
Why would anyone use this?
Most "twitter updates" I see are of random, unimportant, nonsense that people want the millions of other viewers on twitter to see. Anything that anyone seems to find important enough to post is tweeted including videos, the current song that they are listening to (which is them updated again 3 to 5 minutes later), or any sort of thought that happens to pop into their head at the time which, to me, causes those people to seem like a group of finches lined up on a branch. Aside from that music artists can promote sales on their albums and products, Youtube icons can post a new video that they released, and bloggers can post the link to their blog or to their important blog posts. So it can be useful for getting whatever you want out to a large audience in a quick amount of time.
Overall twitter has the simplicity of updating your facebook, myspace, or other social networking site status in 140 characters or less, but with posting the information to a large audience of lack-of-content info junkies. I think that people are just addicted to the constant flow of unimportant gossip and information (that won't be useful tomorrow because a new trending topic will overhaul the others) and are too busy to check anything more than a status update.
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Now that you know My Thoughts On... Twitter, I want to know: What do you think about Twitter? Is it useful or is it pointless? Leave a comment (can be 140 characters or a long paragraph) telling me what you think.
To be able to investigate such a thing, I had to sign up to the website myself. After browsing around for a while I found... well I didn't find all that much actually. Twitter, the website that is causing people such an uproar of talk, is nothing more than a constant status updater. This website has the same exact thing that every other social networking site has. All that is asked to do is answer the question on the front page when you first log in, "What's Happening?". It has to be the most simple question in the world to answer.
I continued to look around and found replies linked back to the person that had first posted a status update using the @ symbol. Many of the users that are on twitter also use the pound (#) symbol infront of many of the words that they type out before they post. Some of these words with the random pound symbol was used enough to achieve a spot in the Trending Topics sidebar.
Who uses this?
I have noticed that just about every human alive in the United States uses this. Of course that is an exaggeration, but it is heard about everywhere. Celebrities have it, shows have it, Youtube icons have it, ordinary people have it, and pretty much everyone else that craves attention or wants something of theirs to be noticed.
Why would anyone use this?
Most "twitter updates" I see are of random, unimportant, nonsense that people want the millions of other viewers on twitter to see. Anything that anyone seems to find important enough to post is tweeted including videos, the current song that they are listening to (which is them updated again 3 to 5 minutes later), or any sort of thought that happens to pop into their head at the time which, to me, causes those people to seem like a group of finches lined up on a branch. Aside from that music artists can promote sales on their albums and products, Youtube icons can post a new video that they released, and bloggers can post the link to their blog or to their important blog posts. So it can be useful for getting whatever you want out to a large audience in a quick amount of time.
Overall twitter has the simplicity of updating your facebook, myspace, or other social networking site status in 140 characters or less, but with posting the information to a large audience of lack-of-content info junkies. I think that people are just addicted to the constant flow of unimportant gossip and information (that won't be useful tomorrow because a new trending topic will overhaul the others) and are too busy to check anything more than a status update.
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Now that you know My Thoughts On... Twitter, I want to know: What do you think about Twitter? Is it useful or is it pointless? Leave a comment (can be 140 characters or a long paragraph) telling me what you think.
Sunday, January 3, 2010
My Thoughts On Religion
Everyone has their own thoughts and opinions on religion so I thought I would share mine.
The people I seem to attract to myself seem to be, in terms of religion, either Christian or Atheist. I haven't met any people that were Hindu, Buddhist, Catholic, or any others besides Christian or Atheist. I know quite a bit about Christianity and Atheism from either my friends telling me about it or exploring it myself. I have read parts of the Bible, too.
I ask a few questions about religion over and over is: Is there a right religion? Which one is the truth? If I don't believe in the right one, what will happen when I die? Really though, how can we ever know if the one we choose is the right one that will take us to a happy place?
I have been an Atheist most of my life but have recently switched over to the in between side of Agnostic. If you didn't already know, Atheists don't believe in a God and don't follow any religion path. Agnostics are in between. They recognize that there could be a God, heaven, or other place to go after death but they don't look into it much further. Agnostics are constantly in limbo of believing. Maybe there is an afterlife and maybe there isn't. No one on earth can know.
But what about ghost sitings and the machines used to detect ghosts? If people have seen ghosts and they are able to be detected, wouldn't that mean that there is some form of after life? These ghosts could also be in limbo from our world to the next. You would think that this would clearly rule out the Atheism thinking, but the Atheist population seems to be growing more and more.
And what about Buddhism? I've looked into this one personally because I believe in reincarnation and this aspect is incorporated into it. In buddhism, correct me if I'm wrong, their are 5 or 6 kinds of forms you can come back to. They are Naraka beings (beings that live in one of the Hells), Animals which have contact with humans, Preta (ghosts), Humans, Asuras (demons, titans, antigods, etc), and Devas (gods, spirits, angels, etc). According to this, that means that our dogs and cats could have once been ghosts, humans, demons or any of the others. If this religion, which is actually more of a philosophy, is true then that means that their is some sort of afterlife or other place of existance. I also know that I have met a lot of people that are afraid of the Buddhists because they are from parts of India, but from what I have read about them they seem like they are striving for peace with themselves, the world, and everything around them, not to harm.
It is pretty obvious that their is sort of a religious war going on between Muslims and Christians for quite some time now. Suicide bombers from al-Qaeda boarded a series of planes, 19 terrorists hijacked them, and purposely crashed them into the Twin Towers and the World Trade Center in New York City in 2001 on September 11. This caused the towers to crash and kill all the people on the two planes along with people working in the buildings. The hijackers also crashed a few more planes into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia and into a field by Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Overall 2,973 victims and 19 hijackers died. I was about 7 when this happened and don't remember much more about it. Ironically this date of 9/11 is also the number you would dial for help from the police. This last Christmas of 2009 another suicide bomber boarded a plane going to Detroit and attempted to blow up the plane when it was going over detroit. A person ended up choking him out after he digested part of the liquid explosive. I'm not clear on which one killed him. Their is also a second part to the liquid explosive that I hear he didn't open properly causing it to start a fire but was soon put out. What I'm getting at here is that most suicide bombers, if not all, are Muslims. They not only seem to be attacking things that would kill a lot of people such as the Twin Towers, but also on days such as Christmas that would affect and devestate people of the Christian religion because that is one of their holidays. To me this is a war of religions, but from what I see Christains aren't fighting back in the same way.
Nobody knows which religion is the right one and no one can know. Maybe one day we will have the technology and facts to be able to detect and tell which religion is the right one to bring a person to the right place. Though I bet that even if people find out what the right religion is to bring them to the happy place they are looking for, they will still believe in whatever religion or philosophy that they want to. So, in conclusion, it seems as if religion just comes down to what you feel is right to believe in.
The people I seem to attract to myself seem to be, in terms of religion, either Christian or Atheist. I haven't met any people that were Hindu, Buddhist, Catholic, or any others besides Christian or Atheist. I know quite a bit about Christianity and Atheism from either my friends telling me about it or exploring it myself. I have read parts of the Bible, too.
I ask a few questions about religion over and over is: Is there a right religion? Which one is the truth? If I don't believe in the right one, what will happen when I die? Really though, how can we ever know if the one we choose is the right one that will take us to a happy place?
I have been an Atheist most of my life but have recently switched over to the in between side of Agnostic. If you didn't already know, Atheists don't believe in a God and don't follow any religion path. Agnostics are in between. They recognize that there could be a God, heaven, or other place to go after death but they don't look into it much further. Agnostics are constantly in limbo of believing. Maybe there is an afterlife and maybe there isn't. No one on earth can know.
But what about ghost sitings and the machines used to detect ghosts? If people have seen ghosts and they are able to be detected, wouldn't that mean that there is some form of after life? These ghosts could also be in limbo from our world to the next. You would think that this would clearly rule out the Atheism thinking, but the Atheist population seems to be growing more and more.
And what about Buddhism? I've looked into this one personally because I believe in reincarnation and this aspect is incorporated into it. In buddhism, correct me if I'm wrong, their are 5 or 6 kinds of forms you can come back to. They are Naraka beings (beings that live in one of the Hells), Animals which have contact with humans, Preta (ghosts), Humans, Asuras (demons, titans, antigods, etc), and Devas (gods, spirits, angels, etc). According to this, that means that our dogs and cats could have once been ghosts, humans, demons or any of the others. If this religion, which is actually more of a philosophy, is true then that means that their is some sort of afterlife or other place of existance. I also know that I have met a lot of people that are afraid of the Buddhists because they are from parts of India, but from what I have read about them they seem like they are striving for peace with themselves, the world, and everything around them, not to harm.
It is pretty obvious that their is sort of a religious war going on between Muslims and Christians for quite some time now. Suicide bombers from al-Qaeda boarded a series of planes, 19 terrorists hijacked them, and purposely crashed them into the Twin Towers and the World Trade Center in New York City in 2001 on September 11. This caused the towers to crash and kill all the people on the two planes along with people working in the buildings. The hijackers also crashed a few more planes into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia and into a field by Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Overall 2,973 victims and 19 hijackers died. I was about 7 when this happened and don't remember much more about it. Ironically this date of 9/11 is also the number you would dial for help from the police. This last Christmas of 2009 another suicide bomber boarded a plane going to Detroit and attempted to blow up the plane when it was going over detroit. A person ended up choking him out after he digested part of the liquid explosive. I'm not clear on which one killed him. Their is also a second part to the liquid explosive that I hear he didn't open properly causing it to start a fire but was soon put out. What I'm getting at here is that most suicide bombers, if not all, are Muslims. They not only seem to be attacking things that would kill a lot of people such as the Twin Towers, but also on days such as Christmas that would affect and devestate people of the Christian religion because that is one of their holidays. To me this is a war of religions, but from what I see Christains aren't fighting back in the same way.
Nobody knows which religion is the right one and no one can know. Maybe one day we will have the technology and facts to be able to detect and tell which religion is the right one to bring a person to the right place. Though I bet that even if people find out what the right religion is to bring them to the happy place they are looking for, they will still believe in whatever religion or philosophy that they want to. So, in conclusion, it seems as if religion just comes down to what you feel is right to believe in.
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